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Alternative Carb Cleaning - Baking Soda Blasting

  • Thread starter Thread starter Shaughn
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I did the soda blasting today. WOW what an amazing technique.

I only have one before shot, here:



And the after shots:








It really is an awesome technique. Sodium bicarb took 90% of the varnish and dirt off, and scrubbing it with some solvent took care of the rest.

These are 29 year old carbs and you'd never know it.
 
I went to the grocer last night and got 2 32 oz. lemon juice, "real lemon" and boiled an extra set of carbs I just got off ebay that were horrendously grotesque last night (well really only the lower bowls and carb lids) with pretty good results. It must take 3-4 times though to get the best results I think and it helped me to run the parts under water and wipe them down while the water was running over them. I should have gone over this thread last night since I boiled them each in turns of 10 minutes but fell asleep on the last batch, leaving them in for 53 minutes. Even worse, the part has been sitting in the lemon juice for the past 24 hours since I can't take the batch out since I'm at work. +1 for lemon juice
 
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